Jalan: Mysteries of the Haunted World

Khitons

Humanity’s most direct natural competition is the race of humanoid chitinoids called khitons. Similar in general shape to humans and ulari, khitons can be mistaken for them from a distance or when covered in robes, but up close their differences are unmistakable. Like most chitinoids, khitons have two pairs of eyes, a primary pair and a smaller, secondary pair an inch or so below them, and their jaws open horizontally and are filled with rows of grinding plates. Their chests come to a ridged point down their center; their throats and stomach are covered in a soft, semi-transparent membrane, while the rest of their skin is a rubbery chitin that wrinkles heavily at their joints. While they are not as driven to expand, khitons are roughly as widespread and diverse as humans, and many communities are composed of both races.

Khiton Characters

Languages: Common, KhitonSkill Bonuses: +2 Perception, +2 Stealth.Eyes Aplenty: At the start of your turn, you can make a saving throw against one blinding effect that a save can end.Swift Glance: You gain a +1 racial bonus to AC and Reflex against ranged attacks from 5 or more squares away from attackers that you can see.Perceptive Defense: See below.

PERCEPTIVEDEFENSEKhiton Racial PowerYou notice the opening you have given your enemy at the last possible moment – just in time to take it away.EncounterImmediate InterruptPersonalTrigger: An enemy that you can see has combat advantage against you and hits you with an attack.Effect: Until the start of your next turn, you do not grant combat advantage to that attacker if you can see them.

Khiton Feats

DAYCASTENOVICEHeroic TierPrerequisite: KhitonBenefit: You gain a +2 bonus to Perception checks and a +2 feat bonus to Initiative

DECEPTIVEPERCEPTIONHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, Perceptive Defense racial powerBenefit: When you are missed by the attack that triggered your Perceptive Defense power, you gain combat advantage against the attacker until the end of your next turn or until you cannot see them.

HARDENEDSENSESHeroic TierPrerequisite: KhitonBenefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to defenses against gaze attacks and illusions and to saving throws against blinded and deafened.

CALCULATINGGLANCEHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, Swift Glance racial abilityBenefit: Your Swift Glance racial ability also applies to bursts, blasts, and melee attacks that originate from 5 or more squares away from attackers you can see.

FAR-SIGHTEDGLANCEHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, Swift Glance racial abilityBenefit: The AC and Reflex bonuses of your Swift Glance ability increase by an additional +1 against attacks that originate from 15 or more squares away.

SHAREDSIGHTHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, shaman, Spirit Companion class featureBenefit: When your spirit companion is present, you and your spirit companion do not take the normal -2 penalty to attack rolls against targets with cover or concealment unless they have cover or concealment from both you and your spirit companion.

FRACTURED MIND’S EYEHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, battlemind, Battlemind’s Demand class, Mind Spike class featureBenefit: Once per encounter, when you hit an enemy with Mind Spike, that enemy cannot flank or gain combat advantage until the end of its next turn.

PERCEPTIVESTRIKESHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, monkBenefit: Once per round, after resolving a close attack that targets all creatures or enemies in a burst or blast, as a free action, you may roll a Perception check to detect hidden or invisible creatures that were within that area when you attacked.

BLOOD ON THEGROUNDHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, seekerBenefit: When you bloody an enemy with a seeker attack, your attacks against that target ignore concealment until the end of the encounter or until the target is no longer bloodied.

CHITINOIDWOODWATCHERHeroic TierPrerequisite: Khiton, druidBenefit: You gain a +2 power bonus to all perception checks to perceive creatures or objects within zones created by your invocations. In addition, when you are in beast form, your Perceptive Defense racial power gains the Beast Form keyword.